Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 19, Number 28, Jasper, Dubois County, 20 July 1877 — Page 3

WEEKLY COURIER.

C, JM)AKK, PaslUhwr, JASl'KB, INDIANA. ITEMS OF INTKJtEST. l'rstinl MHtl l.Hnrarjr. William Shakspoare is the name of h new Kngllsh tenor. -Mrs. Stuart, tho widow of tho late l. .1, K. . St"r, wi, f tcch m 11 rirls ,ia)1 l Smwntoii, Va next sesM" . i -Queen Vicioria . m out unw i.onJon C'axton ivxiiumioo ipiuiq MeiltZ IVaUcr WIllCIl i vhhhhi hi iu,OuO, It is the first nrintcil book Ixjarjug a lt. llHte owinJ? l lft7' Mr. Darwin Hindu a writ of caroful oh.sorvatioiiH on tho early mental dovt'lopmeut of oito of hl onn, and i o inir to print tlicm under tho titlo of 4A llioraphical Sketch of an Infant." Hoion's IJabiw" lias reached a loof nearly a quarter of a million oopics about equally divided between this country and (.reat Britain, whoro i was seized upon by at least six different housed Mr. Ralph Waldo Kincrson's speech at tho dinner given to President Hayes in Boston was as follows; "Mr. Mayor, I have to return my sincere acknowledgements for your invitation to attend Tho Nashvillo American says of Geogia's dead poet, Asa Watson ; 44 Of th brilliant galaxy, tho light of whose genius sliono through tho bouth's cloml of adversity during thu civil war Timrod, Lanier, Randal, Roquier, Hayne, Hatcher, Barrick, Flash, Watson none wrote 4tho songs of the people' in sweeter, more sympathetic and tuneful verso than the last, not tho least, of those favorites of tho Southern homC'Circlo and bivouac lite. A number of American women wrote to Charles Heado, thanking hint for his defense of tho women doctors in Edinburgh in his new novel. In reply, lie acknowledges tho courtesy of tho let ter, and returns tnatiKS tor tiio one jureinent it has trivun him. The An Amort. i ",.IL can women who seek to. become doctors have not, Mr. Kendo says, obstacles of so severe a nature to contend with as tiieir English sisters have. Tho American women havo h higher degree of fortitude, and their nation is t bravo, chivalrous and just to persist in siding with tk strong against tlie weak. Mr. Heade wishes no were i'O years younger and in Utter health, so that lie might ktomc tho champion of a cause the ucces of which he luus so closely at art ; Hcheol RH1 Church. A rcmakable revival is reported in BHltimore. There havo been in three cmircnes an aggregate oi nearly i.-'w , ..1 ...... r . i.vrt It is reported that Messrs. Moody and Sankoy will begin moorings on tho 1st of September in the city of Baltimore, to continue one month. The General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church, at its lato meeting in Sparta, 111 , decided against permuting thu use of musical instruments in public worship. According to tho Year Book of Trinity Church of Xew York City, tlio total amount of property held by tho corporation is $7,000,000; tho annual revenue is $500,000. '-Among tlie premiums awarded at a school examination in Lancaster, Ponn., was a $5 gold piece to Miss Grace Mttench for 44 tho most skillful darning of stockings." . , -The Rev. W. W. Bovd, pastor of the First Baptist Church, 'Charlostown, Mass., and one of tho ablest and most prominent of tho young ministers of his denomination in Boston, lias accepted a call to the Second Baptist Church, St. Louis, Mo. Bishop Andrews, who has been making a tour of the world, inspecting the Methodist Kpisoopal foreign missions, expects to embark for Amoricaon the 25th of July. The last two months of his May abroad will bo spent In (iornwny, Denmark and Sweden. '-Since Archbishop Bayley, of Baltimore, wont to Kuropo his disease has developed into softening of tho brain, and lio has been sent to a monastery in northern Franco. There is little hope hat he will vor recover his mind, and 4 accordingly Bishop Gibbons, of Richmond, has been appointed his successor ' tho Popo. Amherst Coll ogo this ycarconforred tho degree of Doctor of Divinity upon a humm Catholic clergy man, Father owitt,of New Yofk. This is a now ami strange departure for Amherst, which Was founded hy orthodox Now Fhiglaml 1 vwiugHuonntisis, ami litis over stneo ocen under tlio control of that donomititm. A Seintllillo OVDi'llit tun rnuiut utility nt ...., : r k .. . o i nuiuonis ami proiessors from Princeton College, Now Jersey, starts on Juno ;0 tor tho far West tho valley of tho reeii Uivor, a branch of tho Colorado, bo ng tho field explorations. Tho Primary object is to collect materials or tho collage museum and soouro valJ'ablo material for tho scientific school. Jhu trustuos have contributed $ o.OOO toward defraying expense. ScIphpo Atltt iHdioitrjr. -Troy makes 200,000 iron bootjacks Pr year.

youri m osi b eoi Vu in tlio bayous of tiio .Mississippi Hiver, the best of them were tho?e who went down ,liit until Mr. CuukUng took It up, ami, In 1 wish I could uxpi ess in ti ling terms j j work is usually done at niirht ,1,''r l'30''' r(!l4,1' for ny deed of hamo afpecchof surpasHhi; ability, utterly demy thanks. But 1 was always a bail .i" These, com- .nolished ami reduced it to InV sible atomx. Shaker, and am more so in my old ago. A u Ml u t ,Vl. V Mt ril.V 1 .tfit , J ' o V. '"' ,' will, a few treacherous "Mralawa" It became settled, therefore, that the two '.. President I am sure, will fomvo "l , ' stU4,fe"t HttUoo oatursee3. and miiiip leadliif' negroes to mtvo as decoys llouseMmiMteountthe votes, and this clearr .IvjJii'r Tnlt ilfiu-ii ' " li bo alligators aro too old or too young, for the roM, and backed by the power of the jv implied the power to inquire and deter-

Tho area under wheat in (Irani UrlV!i'oWlw ',l!r wwlt to' 1876 t,lH' i

I ho amber trade in Prussia is paralyzed by tlx) war.Turkcy being tiio chief ctmmijiujr. A German firm is manufacturing h Mibtunoo thoy term Meol iron, in live dMeront VHi iotUjH, so that thoy can furnish steel upon iron, iron Ixitwuoii two layers of iron, stool com ami iron skin, or iron con and stool skin. A barrel of tannin ox tract is produced from h cord of hemlock bark, tins value of which is $'M). A cord of alder, it is now foiinil, will yield lliu same aillOUtlt. WllUoa toll of sWl'Ot fiiril tvi,. worth of tho boat tannin and 7 of an interior kind. In Maine the ndustrv of extract lug tannin from ferns lias already atuinwl considerablo iliinomaions. Mr. Kli Wayland, an M citizen of this county, and a resident of Salisbury, nays tho lVrryvillo (Mo.) t'orum. oxhih. I ited in town on Thursday last the model : of an invention of his that ho has just jmtoiucu, ana wnieii is undoubtedly des-! tincd to work a reformation in tho labor of farming. It is a device by which 10 dmcrcnt implements may bo comb hied in OJUJ me)liliWi jt i;J 'H Hoeil-iiower, corn-planter, hay rake, roller, two one horso plows, hoc, meadow-splitter, sulky-plow and corn-marker. Now York handles about .0,000 alligator cklus per annum. Tho business s entirely in thu hands of a single linn. awav, for i such cases tho .ikin is cither too horny or too small. A good size is , eight or nlno foot, counting nothing Imj- , yond the thick part of the tail. .Mention is made of a sample lump of condensed milk, weighing some 112 pounds, which lias been exhibited before tho Society of Arts in London, an iuterostinir experiment having also boon IYt1t till II 1 cltll tl the same uurmr its exhibition. ! This mammoth niece of solidified llnid was prepared according to two most apiirovcd process, and had boon cxpocd ' i tl.o .i.ob.n ibo ..St- fnr ff.nr Vinifn I to tho action of tlio air for tour J.c'fiis l ! ami three months, yet its quality ol cx-1 celleueo had been so imrfcot I v unserved !

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i J i t .i 1 v........fe Xml fro',, ,,1't!rIIhju mid -M1Iihji. .Samuel Lindsloy, an old resident of Eaton County, Mich., was instantly killed by lieing thrown from a reaping machine. The horses became frightened, ran away, and tl ragged him a considerable distance, Charles and John Dickens, broth ers, of Elk County, Kansas, were haulbig logs, and whil loading a large log on tlie wagon,lhO cnain wincn was noiu.....I .!.:... t.,1., .ilmnf I 1,11 l.inj t,ll- ...... , .,.,i i. m. Illllil llllll lu lliu viuium, nnviu immm for S(ne y10UM l)ef0rc help Camo to extricate him. Tim latter was not seriously injured. A daughter of George Finney, aged 8 j'oars, of Cherubusco," Intl., attempted to light a lire with kerosene oil, when the oil exploded, saturating her clothes, which wore burned completely from her hotly. She lingered three hours in terrible agony. At Omaha, Neb., Miss Jensen, in attempting to light a lire with kerosene, was burned fatally. Fourth of July incidents: At Kingston Hall, R. L, an old brass cannon, used in firing salutes, was prematurely discharged, killing Walter Waito, ami seriously injuring "Charles Aldrich and an 'old colored man, named Lum Rhodas. Mr. Adams also had an eye badly injured.' At Philadelphia, win Kussor, aged 10, was accidentally shot and almost instantly kilted by Win. Colcbiirn; anil George Igo, agetl 0, was shot and killed by Edward Dean, agetl KL Dean was arrested. At Cedarville, I ml , Joshua Parker had both arms blown oil', and his faco and breast badly burned, by the premature discharge of a cannon ; ami at Marwille, Intl., George Riisc had one arm blown oil' in tho same manner. At Paris, 111., km. 1.111! cannon exploded, insiauuy siiung Isaac SHtiford. a youth of 1A, sou of Re ceiver Sanford, of the Paris and Danville Railway. At Omaha, William Kolloy was fatiilly injured by the explosion of a small cannon, Foreign Noten. 44 No voung girl haa cause to envy tho Princess Buntrlceof Knghind," writes tlio Loudon correspondent of tho Now York 7'i'mc.s She is dressed as a dowdy, and obliged to bo a companion of tlio Queen in her very humdrum existence. Countess Lauretta Latnbortine, who assorts that she is tho natural daughter of tho ate Cardinal Antottolli, lias comI munccd action, claiming tiio whole of ibis property, which is estimated at many million francs. Tho Gorman Government is preparlug the organization and oquipinunt of tho Lantlsturm, which comprises all ablo.bodied men from 17 to M) years of ago not belonging to tho Lino, Reserve or Lamhvohr, The Lantlsturm litis not boon sunimonctl since 1813. Queen Victoria has cmtsed four ladies of her Court to bo censured for wearing unbecoming costumes. It is understood that their fault lay In wearing garments abbreviated about tho neck and ahoulders. One of the ladles censured was the Viscountoss Mantleville, who is an American by birth.

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.IiiiIkm ,i.H. lllw'k KxinrlHioiiilin iHfHwoiM ' CohuiiUi.Ihh-.TJih CHrtH.inicfer Tho I.OIiUIhmh ItrllirHllIK Honnl lVltlfoKKK of KI.cIoihI UlKlit-TM NMtioH nair. o reirrel tnat our soairo if r will not pormit us to reprint it in full, and that w must oonl'uio ourjiolves to the most utrikinj; pa.s:iw. After briolly adverting to the imlignation felt by honest mon throughout tho country at tho great outrage upon tho rights of tho people, Judge Black proceeds to duplet tho condition of nfl'airs in tho State of Louisiana orovious to the Presidential election. First, he describes earpet-bag !r: wiuttiik f'Aia'irr-nAOOKu i.s. The people would not have been wholly crushed, either bv the soldier or the negro, if both had not been used to f:iten upon them the domination of another class of people whoe rule wan altogether unendurable. These we eall carpet -Ita-rKcrrt, not because the word in descriptive or eupboneous, but bccaiiHo tbey have no other name whereby they are known among the children of men. They were unprincipled adventurer-, who fought their fortunes in the South by plundering the disarmed and defeniele.-s people: sonic of them were thu dreg of the Federal army tho moaneM or tlie eanii)-io owers: of thieves that ever pillaged a people. Their moral grade was far lower, and yet they were much more powerful, than the robber bands that info-ded Germany after the close of tlie Thirty Yearn' War. They swarmed all over the States from tho Potomac to the Gulf, and settled In hordes not with intent to remain there, but merely to feed on tho MibManeo of a nrotrate and defenceless people. They took whatever came within their reach, Intruded themselves into all private corporations, aunied the functions of all offices I'lcludimMho Courts of Justice, and In many places they even "run the church e." v lorce ami irauii tney cuner conl" " 'leytloitsj or else preventeiL elee,,("1'4 tr"m being held. They returned sixty )f ljRtm4(,h. , om, chj-j. a,i u. or twelve of the most Ignorant and venal among them were at the came time Ihruit Into tho ,-;Vcn a bona Hde residence aiHoiif? them wa the Idtterest of all mockeries. There wa 11 no show of truth or honor about It. The pretended Iteprcscntative. was alwaya ready 10 voie mr any measure mat wotuti oppress and unslavo his so-called constituents: Ids hostility win ituconcealed.and he lost no opportunity to do them Injury. TUB UKNKS1S 01' TUB UKTt'KNlSO-nOAUI). The wretched system of cariwl-bag government could not possibly lat. From the first ithad no real support. ThenaUvo people and the hone-t immigrants who went there for purples of legitimaic bushuNs, held it in abhorrence, and the negroes were , not long in finding out that it was a sham ! I.. .. l . ,C!-A I I. ....-. had determined to break up this den of I, .lit, ... ah Mil; i thieves. They must, therefore, prejwre for conwoi oJ. night or putiistunent, unless they count con trlve a way or defeating tnc popular wi Knt'i r aim wittuiur 11 miiiuiu uu i-.v-u-e.-st'ti. Then tlie ueturnmg-uoaru was tiveiited. t sion. ny i ho terms oi inu law u can txclutle, stippre-, annihilate all the votes of a . .... I. . . ......1.1. ...tl. .... liktlmMulL.tt .VM fMAl.il t IM 111 I'M , ll.ll III.-1-, lllllllllliniK'll ill II illlll, .... .!...i ... I...:... I... .......i.....i .....i adiutlges to have materially IiuIuch ! IIIITII II IIIIU1 III Hl U IM.VU V iMllMlll 11 II, nun I'Kll I llll result or tne pou. i ins i jutuciai auinoruy o broatl that no Court would consent to exercise it indicting the fearful penalty of disfranchisement uikiii thousands at once, without a hearing and without lcg.d evidence, not for any offense of their own, but for the supposed sin of others over whom they confessedly have no control. Of course it is in direct conflict with the State Constitution, which declares that all Judicial power shall be vested In certain ordained and established Courts, ami forbid It to be used even by them, except upon trial before a, Tury, and conviction on the testimony of credible witnesses confronted by the accused and crossexamined by counsel. It Is, besides, a most Insolent affront to the fundamental principles of all elective Government, for it makes the poll of the people a mere mocker)', which decide nothing except what the Returning Board'ls pleased to approve, and elects nobody whom the Returning Hoard docs not graciously favor. Its power to veto a popular vote extends to all elections, for every class of officers, Judicial, legislative, ministerial and executive, including the Electors of President and Ylco-President. HOW IT Dili ITS WOllk'. The Board consisted of five persons. They were originally appointed by a earpet-bag Senate, without end tothelr tennreand with power to till vacancies, which made them a eloe corporation and gave them perpetual succession. To nut on somo show of fair lln, I ii iv runt limit I lint, nil 1utrtlis ulinnlil be renresented. Till-was at lirst thoughtto

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. lib, Judxo .IcreuuHh S. Mi n timi. TIicm veden mmt (.xcludd icr i The&,W It ,n"ct It Hd , a. ho coitlnbu or of an nrticic oiititlwl mt w,u, nd tl. Itcdurnlnje Itoarll nU I i'f, huVr I ho hlcctoral ConnpirHfy," which U llL,ll".t, whk what the Hoard wn- made authority to isover ltaaiiift vvr' uttHek. hy all odd thy most oomolMo, eloiufliit tw,' 1 "t'Himliijr 0wm went upon the TMJ tjJ;lt peniktntly Ueidwl tklr iwwer inalo of thofi-'4.wl l.i'wld.li ltiril.i.i.f,-,l iM i !i! jo ouihiH w Hiijii iiH'y muiu not niiu, J (0Hi)tiMiidibd liy the law to do that iM,UeI ' U' 1 ' fy,h .w',ic K,.,,,,,J Vnd i'hivlt which no creature n ho iwrlili t((,0 who wr duly apiMdiitMl. They would JJ. Ilayw was foisKnl into tho l'rosidcn- was hawe (iiiouKh to Iwdc with Idxoath ww ' ,i.t,i fi.ai,.i,Vtu,intimii iuwmI

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This was a machine entirely new, with ny tnu peome. u was mucii easier " c-1 the fellow's caution that ho was far more powers never before given to any tribunal V f ..T ?i,!V tr ! J, " i dangerous than the ordinary tramp, and any State. Its object wa not to return. 'gZi go instructions to his SonCalvin, who , . 1"TO .!! r ,V.L ""SS'i snort lmd slmS tlroS , 5 13 years old, to fasten the doors, pull

be met bvtho appointment of one Democrat; 'them, but they excluded the proofs of their but when a deed of more than common baso- corruption which the Democratic counsel ness was to be done, the Democrat was got had In their hands and offered to exhibit, rid of, and the other four, desiring to work These Commissioners choked oil the cvilu secret, refused to fill his place. - dence and smothered It as remorselessly as Thev comprehended tho situation, saw Well and Ids associates suppressed Demothe difficulty of the work before thorn, and cratlc returns, And this thev put on the resolved to 'make It pay In something better express ground that to them It was all one

than mere promises of 44 recognition," how ever 44 generous and ample." vveiis, wno was their spokesman lit private as in public, wrote In strict confidence to a earpet-bag Senator then at Washington a letter which, being condensed into plain English, means this: 44 There's millions in ill It. See our friends and act promptly. Buy us immediately or we will sell out to the other side. Talk freely to the, gentleman who presents this; he knows tho moves." To the bearer of the letter he explained that It was very hard work to count In the Republican candidate the Democratic majority was too largo to handle ho wanted to serve his party, but ho would not undertake this Job without compensation; he must havo 44 !5KK),t)0d apiece for himself and Anderson, and a smaller sum for the niggers." On this basis he authorized hi embassador at Washington to luucotlate with the Republican managers. At the same than ho was offering himself at New Orleans to the Democrats, at first for half a tnillioH, but after-

wards proposed that he would leave in tmough vtw to elect .Mr. NiehoUs (Demo-

oral hi candidate for Governor) If fsKW.i cash wer first placed ill lib hands. ' 'HINO AKl'IPAVITSi AND KKTUKXH. fabricated hi tho CuMoiu-houe, and ut!d by the Hoard with a full kuoweldgethat they i wi-ro nu'i-i" eoiintcrffdtii. The oxcIiihIoii of returns on tho Kround of intimidation was in every wo dlnhoiut, for In none was there a particle of evidence to Jiihtlfy it. When notliliiL' h!h would servo tint mn-no. ,

theydldnoUeruplearcHort to plain forgery. THK fuij.kxtk.nt ok tub OUTKAok. , Of the return from Vernon Parish every! After all, there was hut one question heilgnre on the whole broad sheet was altered fore the Commission; Had the Amerium with elaborate pains under tho special dl- people aright to elect their own Chief Nagrection of Wells. Perjury and subornation mi-ate? They had the right. Their anesof perjury entered largely Into the business. ' torn struggled for it long, fought for It ofThere Is hardly any species of tho rn'wH ' ten, and won it fairly. Being Imbedded In !nli for which the law has a puiilHhmcnt their Constitution, it etui not be destroyed that did not become an elementary part of except by a force strong enough to overthe great fraud which was committed when throw tho organic structure of tho Governtho defeated Electors and State officers of meut Itself. Legislative enactments or JuLoulniana were falsely certified as chosen by I dielal decisions are powerless either to the people. strengthen or Impair It. The logerdemaln of run cukation ok tub COMMISSION'. law-craft, tho catches of special pleading, f Hut how was the object of the conspiracy , the sna operadoes of pr actlce, do not help is to be accompilfhed? The Houxu of I lepra' to (,f d ,ntt. 'k,e ' $ . sentatlves vas Democratic, and without Its 1 0 J 1 'I'lP0",,, ,,l,'nX? f con.scnt expressed or Impl cd in feme form , J'rL'cc,dc'I' lc1.2ffii n um mn oranother.theSenateeoiiIdnotglvecirectto ' Q''arter'de :i faNc count. The first intention was to of a pauper can t ot tie up tho 'iidi of the claim that the President of the Senate had , Supreme Legislature defending a power to determine absolutcl v and arbitral- fuiidwnenUI right of the w hole i.. L-i.,.., iw..'.i.i i. ,.i ueonle. When Grenville, In 108,

nied that the voice of the House of IlepreMutative was at least as potential as that of the Senators: and it that the House would sutler a fraud so glar "fln inm rttiiiu,7vu " ing as this to be thrust down the throat of the country 44 against tho stomach of sense." Hut if tlio two bodies would declare Inconsistent results of the count, and proclaim tlio election of different Presidents, a state of things might come which would subject, our Institutions to a strain severe enough to endanger them greatly. It was in these difficult circumstances that a mixed Commission of lifteen was proposed, consisting of five Senators, live Uepresentatlvos ami live Judges of the Supreme Court. The mode, of appointing them made it certain that fourteen would be equally divided between the parties and, as the fifth .Judge wouldbe named by the consent of Ids brethren on both shies, he might bo expected to stand between , them, like a daysman, with a hand as heavy on one head as the other. The Democrats consented to this in the belief that no seven Itepublicaiis could be taken from tho Court or from Congress who would swear to decide the truth and then uphold a known fraud; if mistaken in that opinion of their adversaries' honor, they felt sure, at all events, that the umpire would be a fairminded man, They were bitterly disappointed; the Commission went eight to seven . for the great fraud and all Its branches; for fraud in the detail and in the aggregate; for every item of fraud that was necessary ,to make the sum total big enough eight to : seven all the time. , ITS rKTTIFOOOIXO. j Hut the decision in favor of fraud which ' so shocked the common sense and common honesty of the nation was not made with-1 itit uimin -i Mo in lit In nittlfv tl. 'Pit r- li'llt ' gave reasons so many and so plausible that t:11? ,Iust, ,V?,ch,nli,cdn"j.t,h delight when they heard them. One argui nieiii very scrlotislv urged was that It would i , ----- --f , - -, -- -- . . . " ,i"",v",v,v: ""t 'nne, to aceriain wno was tuny appointed inouirv behind that to iuouire whether the certificate was Honest, to look lor tnc evi bdv 'inA dence wnicn would snow wno were t ' , . ,. ... anno Inted ic labor hoc onus est I. I I .1 . Il. 1.... ....t.i.ln.l ' ."o i SO I'll I l-IHIIUII.il IIIU l-.IKMI., U"l II.-1IIIIIUCI them in vain, that tho due appointment which noiiouy in tne worm, except tnc people, had the least right to make, was the very thing which they were there to llnd out; and they could not be excused from a duty to which the) were pledged and sworn by the mere inconvenience of performing it. Besides, the elirht know verv well that there was no difAcuity In It; it was but looking at tho record or the appointment as ino peopio matie u up; thev could read It as they ran; the truth was plainer than the lie; the honesty of the ease was as easily seen as fraud. But no persuasion could influence them to cast even a glance at the actual appointment. What did they think this commission was made for? Why was this great combination of learning ami statecraft sot up? According to the eight Its sole purpose was, not to determine aiiy matter in dispute between tho parties, but merely to declare that the Returning nolntetl then the clitht succeeded In mak ing It merely a splendid abortion, because, among other reasons, it was too much trouble to make it any thing else. THK INFAMOUS KIOHT. The eight Commissioners did not stop there. They went much further. They practically Justified and sustained ill the inlinito rascalitv of the Returning Hoards. Thev not oniv refused to take voluntary noi tlcc'of the atrocious frauds perpetrated by whether tho action of these Hoards was fraudulent or not. Thev would sutler no proof of corruption to invalidate the right' claimed by a Hayes man to put In the vote of a State for his candidate. This monstroui ami unendurable outrage was resisted to tho utmost. All of tho seven Implored and protested against It. Judge Clifford, tho President of the Commission, laid It down as a maxim of tho common law that fraud vitiates whatever It touches, ami proved It undeniably. He might have proved more. It Is not merely a maxim of tho common law; It belongs to all countries and all ages: no code cm claim It exclusively; It pervade all systems of Jurisprudence; it has Its homo In every honest heart; It Is the universal sentiment of all Just men; It applies to all human dealings. Judge Field looked In tho face of the majority, and told them nlalnlv that their dlareeanl of this great principle was 44 a shocking in morals as it was unsouad In law," and added: "It Is

Hoards nail ccrttiieii lor tnc nayes rieciors ami inai no was oi iui wugiu jinicui which every body knew already, and no- atre. The Judge sent him up for 30 body ever denied. If Its object was what days. CAtcaoo Tribune. the law said to decide who were duly ap-

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i solemnity oi protwKMURg, etui smk'iu u irm expoure or proteet Its Mrueturu frow ! Hiilt and destruction." But the ebfht were iHjnson ' as Klectors hy a KeturiiiiMC Hoard, 'xmy would iiotundmtaud that the appointment by the iMopl inibt he one thtii, and tine action f tlie Ueturnliig Hoard another, or tliat the latter, even as evidence of tk former, w worthily If it w "fraudulent. show that America might be taxed without representation. Pitt answered: 14 1 come not here armed at all points, with the statute book doubled down in dog's ears, to defend the cause of liberty. I can acknowledge no veneration for any procedure, law or ordinance that Is repugnant to reason d thp lirst principles i of our Constitution. 1 rejoice V'at Aiuer oa has revolted.'' So presence of a hostile Parliament ten years liefore the Declaration of Independence. Add now, after this long Interval of time, we behold our greatest right the right on which all other rights depend successfully as-ailed In our own Congress with the same small weapons that Grenville used. If brute force had crushed It out, we might have borne the calamity with fortitude; hut to see It circumvented by knavery and pettifogged to death, is too much to be endured with anv show of patience. If the majority of that Commission could but have realized their responsibility to God and man, if they could only have understood that In a free country liberty and law are Inseparable, they would have been enrolled among our greatest benefactors, for they would have added strength and grandeur to our institutions. But they could not coma up to the height of the great subject. Party passion so benumbed their faculties that a fundamental right seemed nothing to them when it camo in conflict with some argument supported by artificial reasoning, and drawn from the stipnosed analogies of technical procedure. Tho Constitution was, In their Judgment, outweighed by a void statute and tho action of a corrupt Returning Hoard. Let these things be remembered by our children's children; and If the friends of free government shall ever again havo such a contest, let them take care how they leave the decision of it to a tribunal like that which betravedthe nation by emhronlngthe Great Fraud of 1878. J. S. BLACK. Ah Intrepid Youth. A farmer named Johnson, living noar Clinton, Wis., the other btinttay morn- ! hg. when preparing to leave for church P? , . .?(i rnntrb-lnnL-incr u lh his fainilj , noticed a rough-looking customer lying under some currantbushes. Mr. Johnson suspected from 1 velopmonts. After the family had gone in short time, voune Johnson hoard a . . N w , noise in his beuroom, and, going inside tlie room, waited at tlie foot of his bod, witli revolver in hand, and, when the thiof was climbing into the room through tlio window, told him to go away, or he would blow out his brains, but the daring burglar ran to and grappled with Calvin, grabbing hold of the weapon. Johnson pulled the triggor, and shot the prowler through the loft hand, the bullet nearly coming out at the top of his wrist. When this was done, he cried for mercy, and Calvin tied him to the bedstead with ropes. He wns taken to town, and Dr. Jauios extracted tho bullet. The trial took place Monday morning before Justice Slosson, in a crowded court-room, whon it was learned that tho villain's name was Lewis Hansen, Cheesing Flctares for Keems. Most peopio know that light colors make rooms look larger than dark ones, though it is probable that few can entirely realize the wonderful difference between thorn until they have seen walls painted dark or tho reverse. A light picture by tho same law makes a room look largor, and a picture darker than tho wall it is hung upon will reduce the size of the room, unloss the lightnoss of the frame is sufficient to compensate for tho difference. Perhaps the present decided taste for light pictures is partly duo to this. A rule in the arrangement of interiors mav be deduced from these

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observations, which is, that when a room $3 smaller than we should like it to be, wo ought to hang very light pictures in it, and whon it Is uncomfortably large we should reduce it with dark ones. But there are other things to be considered. Pictures which represent narrow interiors do not enlarge rooms much, bocauso they convey a feeling of confinement; but landscapes with vast distances enlarge rooms immensely. In engravings and water-colors the margin has an important effect. Tlie whiteness of it may be ample compensation for the darkness of the print itself. Hmnerton. Secrktary Evarts has a farm, and his potatoes cost him f 1.60 per bushel. 1-